Time and Priority Management
Categories: Time management
Time and Priority Management

Duration:
2 days non residential

Fee*:
£975 [*prices exclude VAT ]

About this Course:

Time cannot be created but it can be lost:
The time and priority management course has been designed on the premise that good time and priority management can be learnt. This is an essential and beneficial personal skill, one of the personal competencies required to be effective, contained in the MCI Personal Competency Model.

This two day course will stimulate thoughts about personal approaches to time management, priorities, values and motivation. It is anticipated that the time duration of this course will be saved within the first month. The introduction of various tools, techniques and processes will enable delegates to take more control of their lives, work more effectively and ultimately feel content, efficient and fulfilled at an individual level. The course includes the introduction of a state of the art personal digital assistant (PDA). Currently the PDA is a mid-range Palm device, but other models may be substituted.

Course Objectives:
To introduce and explain the latest concepts, techniques and processes that will enable delegates to 'work smarter' and improve their personal competence and effectiveness.
To provide an understanding of how to handle priorities and organise work at an individual level.

Who will the course benefit?
Delegates who want to improve their time and priority management skills, and those who would like to use the latest technological aid to assist them.

What skills will the delegate gain?
This course will enable delegates to: 
- Identify time bandits and deal with them. 
- Prioritise effectively. 
- Improve desk management skills. 
- Master self discipline. 
- Handle interruptions. 
- Defeat procrastination. 
- Utilise effective processes.

Pre-Requisites:
None.

Course Content:
- Desk Management
- Working smarter, conquering paperwork, the telephone and e-mail. Planning processes. Positive goal setting. Diary management.
- Priorities
- Effective techniques and processes to manage and set priorities.
- Time Bandits
- Identify where time is wasted. Strategies for dealing with time bandits.
- Processes
- Effective processes for decision making, delegation, communication, meetings and estimating.
- Individual Personality
- Personality profiling. Identifying personality traits. Time and priority management approaches for the individual.
- The Right Attitude
- Imperative to time management. Self discipline. How say to 'NO'; handle interruptions; prevent procrastination.
- Stress Awareness
- Stress is often the consequence of poor time management, be aware of the signs of stress and cope by using the three 'Ps'; plan, prioritise, pleasure.
- Personal Digital Assistant
- Understand the time management functions of the portable electronic digital assistant and how it will assist effectiveness, better time management and professionalism.

Notes:
Every delegate will receive a new and latest personal digital assistant (PDA) to use and take home. Currently the PDA supplied is a mid-range Palm device, but other models may be substituted.

Follow-on Courses:
No follow-on courses have been defined

 
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Key Details
Provided by:
Parity Training Ltd


 
Duration2 days
 
£975
per delegate